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Small Steps and The Peace Academy, with support from Religions for Peace Multireligious Humanitarian Fund, invites you to an online training: “The Effects of War on Individuals and Group(s) - Finding Hope in the Midst of Destruction.”  The training’s two lead trainers and guest are experienced peacebuilders and psychotherapists who have lived through the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.

A grant provided for this training allows all participants to join free of charge.

If you are from Ukraine or are an Ukrainian refugee, would like to learn the impact of trauma on an individual and group levels, and are seeking ways to help yourself and others address trauma and embark on the process of healing, please apply! 

Deadline for reserving your place in the training is 3rd of October, 2022.

The training will be held online, via Zoom, in English. 

It is our pleasure to inform you that the Peace Academy is offering the course entitled Building Environmental Movements in Divided Societies.  The course will offer an excellent opportunity for learning about the emergence and development of environmental movements and mobilization for spatial justice and collective action. This course will be offered as an online course where the participants will have the opportunity to attend the course remotely via the Zoom platform. 

The recent years have seen an unprecedented wave of mobilization around spatial and environmental-related issues. Environmental campaigning and ecological concerns have brought together different actors to stage protests and raise their voice for a better environment and the preservation of natural resources. Collective action for the environment has occurred also in societies divided along ethnic lines, where individuals of different background joined their forces to safeguard natural resources. This course aims to provide students with a critical reading of the main debates within the field of collective action in divided societies.  It draws on the literature on social movement studies and on deeply divided societies, with the contribution of scholars, local practitioners and activists engaged in the field inside and outside the region. Bosnia and Herzegovina constitutes a case in point for the study of social movements in divided societies, and in particular of environmental movements, which emerged and diffused nationwide in the last decade. The country represents in fact a critical and strategic case for the examination and understanding of the dynamics of mobilization in divided societies, at times challenging the existing theoretical assumptions, since over the last decade contentious collective action took place in spite of the country presenting a wide range of unfavourable conditions for its occurrence.

As societies continue to fracture along political, ethnic, and ideological lines, becoming aware of and being equipped to deal with various types of trauma is increasingly relevant for all of us in our families, everyday relationships, workplaces, and communities. Trauma-sensitive peacebuilding requires that we recognize and acknowledge individual, communal, and historical harms and incorporate strategies for healing individuals and societies. This fall from October 4 to November 12, The Peace Academy Foundation, in partnership with Peace Catalyst International, is offering a 5-week online course “Trauma-Sensitive Peacebuilding.” Led by trauma-sensitive peacebuilding trainers, this course aims to contribute to an international conversation about trauma and peacebuilding by providing interactive approaches to recognize and respond to trauma as peacebuilders. This course is intended as an introductory to intermediate training for people in caring professions (e.g. social workers, counselors, teachers, pastors, etc.), students and activists passionate about trauma healing and/or peacebuilding, and everyday people who are interested in getting involved in peacebuilding work in their communities.

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    Engl. An international. Commonly known as a foreigner but that’s not the way it is used in polite speech (See). S/he is a guest in the land of the locals (See) wishing to contribute to the development of democracy (See) and enhance human rights (See). Has read at a minimum one book or at least the more important chapters on the history of B&H or even the entire region of South-East Europe. Has got money. Gladly takes other internationals out to dinners whenever s/he can charge it to the budget of a project (See). S/he likes the locals and considers them to be her/his equal, to be de facto equalized to her/him. And the locals love her/him, too. S/he knows how to say GOOD DAY, THANK YOU and NO PROBLEM in local languages of which s/he is very proud.  A vegetarian, a feminist, a non-smoker and not a racist; s/he points that out very often and is not ashamed of it at all.  Additionally, s/he thinks that war criminals should be brought to justice in Den Haag. In general, a happy character. See: expert. Translator's note: BSC form of an English word „International“ when taken from English and adjusted gramatically to BSC language.

from Ubleha for Idiots – An Absolutely non useful Guide for Civil Society Building and Project management for Locals and Internationals in BiH and Beyond by Nebojša Šavija-Valha and Ranko Milanovic-Blank, ALBUM No. 20, 2004, Sarajevo, translated by Marina Vasilj.